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Unscored USN-4087-1 1 CVE

BWA vulnerability

Published Aug 6, 2019 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Summary

It was discovered that Burrows-Wheeler Aligner (BWA) mishandled certain
crafted .alt files. An attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a
denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 18.04 LTS 18.04:LTS bwa 0.7.17-1ubuntu0.1

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Unscored —
    CVE-2019-10269

    BWA (aka Burrow-Wheeler Aligner) before 2019-01-23 has a stack-based buffer overflow in the bns_restore function in bnt…

    bwa bwa Debian Ubuntu

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-10269